Faculty

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The Courtauld has a teaching staff of more than 40 world-class scholars, covering a broad spectrum of the history of art and architecture. While they have a wide range of approaches to the study of the history of art, all share a commitment to the close examination of individual works. The teaching of the BA programme also helps students to engage with broader issues of theory and methodology. All students are allocated a Personal Tutor to assist them throughout the degree, and who usually provides the first point of contact for academic and personal issues. Students also have access to an Academic Support Tutor who can help with time management, research skills, reading techniques and other study skills. Further help with essay writing is provided by two Royal Literary Fund Fellows. The Fellows are published authors who offer students help with all aspects of writing, and do so in a friendly and confidential fashion.

Director

History of Art Department

Professor Jo Applin

Walter H. Annenberg Professor in the History of Art

Professor Sussan Babaie

Professor in the Arts of Iran and Islam

Dr Jessica Barker

Senior Lecturer in Medieval Art History

Professor Alixe Bovey, FSA FRHistS

Executive Dean and Deputy Director

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Dr Lucy Bradnock

Reader in Modern and Contemporary Art and Dean for Research

Dr Esther Chadwick

Lecturer in Art History

Esther Chadwick

Dr Indie A. Choudhury

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Stephanie Dieckvoss

Senior Lecturer in Art History

Professor Antony Eastmond

Acting Executive Dean and Deputy Director, AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art

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Dr Johanna Gosse

Lecturer in Lens and Time-Based Art Histories

Dr. Sarah Grandin

Lecturer in the Arts of Early Modern France

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Dr Catherine Grant

Reader and Dean for Education

Dr Felix Jäger

Lecturer in Early Modern Art and Material Cultures

Dr Klara Kemp-Welch

Reader in 20th Century Modernism

Dr Caroline Levitt

Senior Lecturer; Head of History of Art Department

Dr Kyle Leyden

Lecturer in Early Modern Architecture

Sujatha Meegama

Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Senior Lecturer in Buddhist Art History

Dr Maria Mileeva

Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Dr Natalia Murray

Lecturer in Modern Art and Curating

Professor Susie Nash

Deborah Loeb Brice Professor of Renaissance Art

Professor Lynda Nead

Visiting Professor of History of Art

Dr Tom Nickson

Reader in Medieval Art & Architecture

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Professor Gavin Parkinson

Professor in European Modernism

Professor David Peters Corbett

Professor of American Art

Professor Dorothy Price

Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art and Critical Race Art History

Professor Guido Rebecchini

Professor of Sixteenth-Century Southern European Art

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Dr Robin Schuldenfrei

Tangen Reader in 20th-century Modernism

Dr Devika Singh

Senior Lecturer in Curating

Tom Stammers

Reader in Art and Cultural History

Dr Wenny Teo

Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art

Dr Stephen Whiteman

Reader in the Art and Architecture of China

Professor Sarah Wilson

Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art

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Dr Meredyth Winter

Lecturer in Early Islamic Arts

Dr Tom Young

Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Art Histories

Conservation Department

Research Fellows

Associate Lecturers

Sophia Adams

Associate Lecturer

Dr Bergit Arends

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow

Will Atkin

Associate Lecturer

Dr George Bartlett

Associate Lecturer

Dr Gabe Beckhurst

Associate Lecturer

Dr Irene Brooke

Lecturer in Renaissance Art

Ellen Brown

Associate Lecturer

Dr Emily Christensen

Associate Lecturer

Alice David

PhD Student

Phoebe Day

PhD Student

Florence Eccleston

PhD Student

Lily Evans-Hill

PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

Dr Barbara Furlotti

Associate Lecturer

Nicole Gasparini Casari

PhD Student

Jessica Gasson

PhD student

Anne Grasselli

Associate Lecturer

Dr Susan Green

Associate Lecturer

Dr Sophie Guo

Associate Lecturer

Catherine Ingrams

Associate Lecturer

Carla Kessler

PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

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Tanya Klowden

PhD Student

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Dr Teresa Lane

Head of the Courtauld Graduate Diploma; Associate Lecturer

Amanda Caterina Leong

Mongol Connections Getty Postdoctoral Fellow

Dr Charlotte de Mille

Associate Lecturer

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Dr Henning von Mirbach

Associate Lecturer

Giulia Morale

PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

Luke Naessens

Terra Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate Lecturer

Abigail Provan

Associate Lecturer

Meitao Qu

Associate Lecturer

Dr Ana Gabriela Rodríguez

Associate Lecturer

Dr Niccola Shearman

Associate Lecturer

Harvey Shepherd

Associate Lecturer

Dr Daisy Silver

Associate Lecturer

Anya Smirnova

PhD student

Hattie Spires

PhD Student; Associate Lecturer

Margaret Squires

PhD candidate; Associate Lecturer

Jane Stewart

PhD Student

Kirsten Tambling

Associate Lecturer

Han Tame

Associate Lecturer

Irakli Tezelashvili

PhD Candidate; Associate Lecturer

Dr Frances Varley

Associate Lecturer

Dr Helena Vilalta Conesa

Centre for the Art of the Americas Postdoctoral Fellow 2023-24

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Xinrui Zhang

Associate Lecturer

Haoyang Zhao

Associate Lecturer

Xiaojue Michelle Zhu

PhD Candidate; Associate Lecturer

Professors Emeriti

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